Feverish dreams flickered from his enlarged eyes, long nails grew slowly on his parched fingers and a dry, shaggy beard grew on his chin.

Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha

He ate another piece of jerky and a handful of parched corn, waiting for the dark.

Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony

It was us that had been making him go on for weeks, ... weeks of making him wink and grin and laugh and go on with his act long after his humor had been parched dry between two electrodes.

Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

It was a warm, bubbly, mushy nectar, sweet and tangy. It felt like heaven as it flowed over his dry mouth and down his parched throat.

Louis Sachar -- Holes

Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain.

Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet

The grass on the side lawn was parched brown with irregular scallops of green where the shade of the trees shadowed the ground.

Maureen Daly -- Seventeenth Summer

He had parched hands and a face hacked as if by baseball cleats.

Victor Martinez -- Parrot in the Oven

Now the walls dissolved into distances of parched weed, mile on mile, and warm endless sky.

Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles

But nothing could stop it from leaking past his teeth and swollen parched tongue.

Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear

Hazel felt bad asking them to take care of her, but she’d woken up parched and exhausted...

Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune

It looked dried out today, parched.

Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

"You must be parched," said Szpirglas.

Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn

By the time they take a break, my ears pound and my throat is parched.

Ellen Hopkins -- Glass

There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant chunk pomp of leather and young bodies on the practice field near her house made her think of bands and cold Coca-Colas, parched peanuts and the sight of people’s breath in the air.

Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman

The ground was dry, parched from months with no rain, and it was solid.

Kiera Cass -- The Elite

But in my parched haze, it’s hard to piece together what happened.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride

It had been a few weeks since the last torrential storm, and anything that had regrown since the flares was parched.

James Dashner -- The Kill Order

My throat’s parched.

Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave

As we headed south the land became more parched.

Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

He took a drink of water, realizing how parched his throat had become.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice

My two cans of grain alcohol were believed to have been vodka, with which to loosen the tongues of the parched Russians in order to pry out their innermost secrets.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

I can’t breathe, and my mouth is dry, parched.

Pittacus Lore -- I Am Number Four

He opened the chest, drew out a roll of parch— ment, and brought it to Lord Nestor.

George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows

She wet her parched lips and craned her neck to peer at the android behind her.

Marissa Meyer -- Cinder

His mud skin was cracked like a parched riverbed.

Rick Riordan -- The Trials of Apollo

There were Megan and Christy, who jumped up and down like parched peas, moody Beth Ann, and pink-cheeked Alex.

Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

My lips were parched and my throat was dry.

Theodore Taylor -- The Cay

Their throats were parched, their bones ached, their stomachs twitched with hunger.

Karen Levine -- Hana’s Suitcase

His lips became cracked and parched.

Linda Sue Park -- A Long Walk to Water

If we were to have children …." and the sudden, alerted sweep of her eyes across his face had made him feel the way a parched plant must feel when it’s finally given water.